Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Callahan, Joseph Gregory June 21, 1956
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Virginian-Pilot  June 23, 1956
JOSEPH CALLAHAN, WAR HERO, DIES

NORFOLK — Joseph Gregory Callahan, 38, son of Mrs. Catherine E. Fitzgerald 
Callahan and the late Denis D. Callahan, died suddenly Thursday. He was a native 
oF Portland, Maine, and a resident oF Norfolk for the past 17 years, residing at 
1451 Ashland Circle at the time of his death.

He was a member of Christ the King Catholic Church and was a veteran of World War 
II, in which he was captain of a tank battalion in the Pacific, serving in the 
battlefield command at Okinawa from 1941 to 1945. He was awarded the Purple Heart 
with oak loaf cluster for outstanding service.

Besides his mother he is survived by one brother, Denis J. Callahan, and two 
sisters, Misses Margaret C. and Mary Callahan, all of Norfolk.

The body was taken to the H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments pending arrangements.

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